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Precise RC2 torrent to share the load...

On HD screens the taskbar doesn't expand totally from side to side, it begins on the left and ends some part before reaching the right side, likewise windows open within a 1024x768 size limit, even after running xorgwizard and choosing a screen resolution that fits the wide screen. Not a show stopper to me, even if the computer (an HP all-in-one desktop PC) were mine. (it's my friend's, my monitor is actually 1024x768) So far I haven't found anything important (talking about not-real-important things, choosing country from quicksetup I found es_CO as Spanish from Columbia instead of Colombia). To my surprise I'm still connected to Internet when I close the terminal window of PGPRS or restart X, whoever implemented this, it's awesome, thanks! And GNOME MPlayer no longer crops videos when resizing the window, in older Puppies I had to downgrade to version 1.0.2 to solve this.

Billtoo wrote:

666philb wrote:The boot manager isn't working properly the 'Choose which extra SFS files to load at bootup" option doesn't work

can someone confirm this

The bootmanager is working okay here.

In here BootManager doesn't recognise some SFS files, probably because they're made for Lucid or another specific Puppy version. For example, loading the unrecognised SFS by SFS-load works, but the programs won't launch or won't work properly. As none of the SFS files are real important to me, I'll simply wait until versions for Precise are uploaded to the repos.

vicmz wrote:On HD screens the taskbar doesn't expand totally from side to side, it begins on the left and ends some part before reaching the right side, likewise windows open within a 1024x768 size limit, even after running xorgwizard and choosing a screen resolution that fits the wide screen. Not a show stopper to me, even if the computer (an HP all-in-one desktop PC) were mine. (it's my friend's, my monitor is actually 1024x768) So far I haven't found anything important (talking about not-real-important things, choosing country from quicksetup I found es_CO as Spanish from Columbia instead of Colombia). To my surprise I'm still connected to Internet when I close the terminal window of PGPRS or restart X, whoever implemented this, it's awesome, thanks! And GNOME MPlayer no longer crops videos when resizing the window, in older Puppies I had to downgrade to version 1.0.2 to solve this.

task bar fine on my hd screen

Fresh manual frugal install on the Athlon XP box......... early but no problems yet.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.3.97

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
1709 frames in 5.0 seconds = 341.440 FPS
1916 frames in 5.0 seconds = 383.081 FPS
1821 frames in 5.0 seconds = 364.129 FPS
2885 frames in 5.0 seconds = 576.949 FPS
3963 frames in 5.0 seconds = 792.300 FPS
1960 frames in 5.0 seconds = 391.925 FPS

As noted by 01micko, not running 'vesa' here either....using 'nouveau'.

i made an sfs of amarok 2.5.0 http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81642 i grabbed all the deps from the precise repos.

Full Install to ext4 partition

Added
Xscreensaver 5.15
Shermans Aquarium 3.01
Abiword 2.90
Firewallstate 2.1
Pupcontrol 2.2
Pupclockset 1.9
Roxterm 1.17.1
Wbar
Evince 2.30
Puppybrowser 1.1
Flashplayer 11-2.202.228
Bibletime 2.72
Audacious 3.2.3.2
Xchat 2.88
Tcl 8.5.6
Tk 8.5.6

All items functioning properly

p310don wrote:Precise RC2 torrent to share the load...

seeding

Billtoo wrote:It's working okay so far, highlighting and copying text from one
document to another is a little difficult because the highlighted text
doesn't show as highlighted at first but is once you click on the
destination document.
I couldn't find the report-video file in /tmp/root, changed the
wallpaper to one a little easier on the eyes.

Billtoo (or anyone else),
I don't understand the above.
Highlighted text, where?
I can highlight text in any application, and it is perfectly visible as being highlighted.

sszindian wrote:Humph.....

Shut down RC2 (after tearing my hair out... what little is left!) Rebooted another program.... shut that down and figured I'd give one more try at Precise WiFi to see what maybe I missed.

Well... I guess I didn't miss anything because on reboot I forgot to plug in my eth0 cable and Precise fired right up and low and behold WiFi was '''connected'' and seems to be working OK!!!!

Like I say, I don't have very much hair left after this one since 5.2.60

Other than the rt2800usb thingy... Precise runs like a champ in all other areas I tested so far...


>>>---Indian------>

Your eth0 cable is connected to a live network? Puppy will automatically use that as the Internet connection at bootup, see script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.

Regarding - highlighting - it’s fine and is working.

However, changing gtk theme, improved things dramatically,
especially in abiword.

HTH - regards - Ray

rerwin wrote:Barry,
To continue support for ALSA modems, the slmodemd daemon is required. However, it is not present in 5.3.97. That is because the firmware package firmware_linux_module_slmodem-20121004 was not included in the woof-installed-packages list. Please add that to the list for the final release, to avoid a regression for ALSA-modem users. (It does not require the presence of the slamr or slusb drivers, which should be omitted.) Thanks.
Richard

Thanks, done.

Ray MK wrote:Regarding - highlighting - it’s fine and is working.

However, changing gtk theme, improved things dramatically,
especially in abiword.

HTH - regards - Ray

Hmmm, highlighting in Abiword, I have posted when first drag over some text, then second image when window has lost focus.

I can't see anything wrong with the readability.

Still occurring with worsening failure rate on first boot, seems to be a precise issue, rarely happens with current Wary. Have yet got mouse working will keep trying and let you know if it ever clears that lockup.

BK Wrote:

Your eth0 cable is connected to a live network? Puppy will automatically use that as the Internet connection at bootup, see script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
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No eth0 (or any other cables) plugged into computer from modem... definitely running wireless!!!!

System I'm running... Verizon Modem is 'also' a router with my DSL.

>>>---Indian------>

Mouse locks up if laptop is plugged in, but boots cleanly 1 of 5 times if running on battery.

out of 41 boot attempts only successfully from battery, no pattern noticed.

Successful boots on try #s
3,19,21,25,28 only on battery power #19 and on
31- power cord removed during search for puppy.sfs
32 powercord removed then reinserted after disk io finished
41 powercord removed. (posting from this try)

So I'm guessing its a timing issue, CPU drops speed and boot speed slows somewhat if on battery

Still confused on why a remastered sfs is smaller than orginal.

Still working well overall........

Just got back from my six week vacation back home in Canada, I'll give Precise Puppy a whirl this week and report back.
ttuuxxx

JamesC: please advise where you get some of those superb wallpapers you use. Can't live with some of the awful things that've been appearing recently!